By Cara Vollmer, Senior Content Strategist, Oracle Cloud-enabled emerging technologies are changing the way companies operate and compete—and the finance...
By Cara Vollmer, Senior Content Strategist, Oracle Cloud-enabled emerging technologies are changing the way companies operate and compete—and the finance function, specifically, is ripe for disruption. Finance teams spend 85% of their time on labor-intensive, manual tasks, leaving little time for innovation, shares Juergen Lindner, VP of marketing for Software as a Service (SaaS) at Oracle. But with advancements such as AI, machine learning, robotic process automation, and...
By Cara Vollmer, Senior Content Strategist, Oracle Cloud-enabled emerging technologies are changing the way companies operate and compete—and the finance function, specifically, is ripe for...
CFOs are embracing cloud deployments for their ERP software and applications in greater numbers, and the advantages of cloud ERP are becoming clearer every...
CFOs are embracing cloud deployments for their ERP software and applications in greater numbers, and the advantages of cloud ERP are becoming clearer every year. In a recent discussion with Ray Wang, founder and principal analyst of Constellation Research, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd said that cloud ERP allows finance leaders to “get rid of spreadsheets, get out of customizations, lower costs, and get better reporting.” The burden of regulatory compliance is one key issue that has...
CFOs are embracing cloud deployments for their ERP software and applications in greater numbers, and the advantages of cloud ERP are becoming clearer every year. In a recent discussion with Ray Wang,...
Whenever I look at the metrics for this publication, one thing stands out: finance readers are hungry for information about emerging technologies. Articles...
Whenever I look at the metrics for this publication, one thing stands out: finance readers are hungry for information about emerging technologies. Articles about blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, and the Internet of Things, are inevitably the most popular content we publish. Everyone wants to know how to put these new innovations to use to drive better business results. No longer the province of the IT department or analyst...
Whenever I look at the metrics for this publication, one thing stands out: finance readers are hungry for information about emerging technologies. Articles about blockchain, artificial intelligence,...
By Indy Bains, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle The finance function might be the guardians of the bottom line, but they know that business is...
By Indy Bains, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle The finance function might be the guardians of the bottom line, but they know that business is about more than just revenue. It’s also about people—in particular, making sure that the organization has the right people in place, with the skills needed to help the business achieve its goals. In many organizations, finance and HR are closely intertwined. So it’s no surprise that a 2017 survey by MIT (MIT Technology...
By Indy Bains, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle The finance function might be the guardians of the bottom line, but they know that business is about more than just revenue. It’s...
By Mike Baccala, Assurance Innovation Leader, PwC and Ed Ponagai, Principal, Finance Consulting, PwC Earlier this year, we made 8 predictions about artificial...
By Mike Baccala, Assurance Innovation Leader, PwC and Ed Ponagai, Principal, Finance Consulting, PwC Earlier this year, we made 8 predictions about artificial intelligence (AI) in 2018. They’re all of particular importance to the finance function because—unlike autonomous cars and cancer cures—AI is ready for actual production in finance. Indeed, the finance function is one place we had in mind when we wrote: “AI will come down to earth—and get to work.” By “get to work,” we...
By Mike Baccala, Assurance Innovation Leader, PwC and Ed Ponagai, Principal, Finance Consulting, PwC Earlier this year, we made 8 predictions about artificial intelligence (AI) in 2018. They’re all of...
By Sandy Kataoka, IBM Partner, Global Oracle Offerings Leader Emerging technologies are not only disrupting business, but the US economy as a whole. The new...
By Sandy Kataoka, IBM Partner, Global Oracle Offerings Leader Emerging technologies are not only disrupting business, but the US economy as a whole. The new Oracle report, Intelligent Finance: How CFOs Can Lead the Coming Productivity Boom, details how widespread cloud adoption is accelerating productivity and new business value, potentially adding $2 trillion to the US economy over the next decade. Much of this new value comes from using the cloud to deliver groundbreaking...
By Sandy Kataoka, IBM Partner, Global Oracle Offerings Leader Emerging technologies are not only disrupting business, but the US economy as a whole. The new Oracle report, Intelligent Finance:...
Information technology is going through a massive generational shift. The pendulum between multiple and single vendor configurations is swinging back to favor a...
Information technology is going through a massive generational shift. The pendulum between multiple and single vendor configurations is swinging back to favor a more vertically-integrated technology stack: the cloud. This transition offers customers of all sizes better security and more innovation all at a lower cost—and it’s inevitable. Then Versus Now At Modern Supply Chain Experience 2018, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd asserted that this shift “is generational—you are going to see...
Information technology is going through a massive generational shift. The pendulum between multiple and single vendor configurations is swinging back to favor a more vertically-integrated technology...
A little over two years ago, we launched this publication with a vision: the finance team is the co-pilot of the business. In the short years since then, the...
A little over two years ago, we launched this publication with a vision: the finance team is the co-pilot of the business. In the short years since then, the vision and role of finance has continued to expand. Today, it’s not enough even to be the co-pilot. Finance leaders must also be the change agent of the organization—innovating today, predicting tomorrow, and shaping the future. The single-most important question finance leaders need to be asking is, “What will tomorrow...
A little over two years ago, we launched this publication with a vision: the finance team is the co-pilot of the business. In the short years since then, the vision and role of finance has continued...
By Arun Khehar, SVP Applications ECEMEA, Oracle Imagine you have a life-threatening allergy to shellfish. Your threshold for exposure is so low that even trace...
By Arun Khehar, SVP Applications ECEMEA, Oracle Imagine you have a life-threatening allergy to shellfish. Your threshold for exposure is so low that even trace amounts of crustaceans or mollusks cause your throat to swell shut. You may not dine out much at high-end restaurants in seaside cities—that is, unless you are in Dubai. In 2017 the Dubai government launched an app and website called Food Watch, which enables people to get detailed information about the food they...
By Arun Khehar, SVP Applications ECEMEA, Oracle Imagine you have a life-threatening allergy to shellfish. Your threshold for exposure is so low that even trace amounts of crustaceans or mollusks cause...